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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

As the end of 2023 approaches, it becomes imperative to assess the current landscape of cybersecurity threats, explore potential strategies to combat them, and explore the new practice measures that can be taken. Our interconnected online world is no longer separate from our lives, businesses, or our global economy.

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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

billion devices reported in 2023. It also introduces new security challenges that demand our attention, especially as IoT is integrated into operational technology (OT) environments. 6 IoT vulnerabilities to watch out for Security risks are a significant concern for businesses using LoT and OT technology.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks While mobile technology has been around for decades, the current generation, 5G, is increasingly being recognized for the exciting new benefits it brings to enterprises, SMBs, and public sector organizations. Security needs to keep up.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. What methods are cybersecurity experts using to minimize the impact of these attacks? Let’s dig deeper.

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5 tips for securing your remote workspace

CIO

Security professionals must adapt controls to a world where the perimeter is distributed, and users can log into corporate resources from any network and any device. In fact, support for hybrid and remote workers was named as a key reason for increasing IT budgets this year according to Foundry’s 2023 State of the CIO research.

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HeadCrab 2.0: Evolving Threat in Redis Malware Landscape

Aqua Security

At the beginning of 2023, Aqua Nautilus researchers uncovered HeadCrab - an advanced threat actor utilizing a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that compromised 1,200 Redis servers. As you know in the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, threat actors continually adapt and refine their techniques.

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